Home / Titles / Senegal - The Power to Change
Print Page

Senegal - The Power to Change


DVD PPR Price: $450
DVD Site Price: N/A
DVD Home Price: N/A



» Request Preview Access
Subjects: African Studies, Anthropology, Female Genital Mutilation, Women's Studies

Grade Level: SrH-Adult
Producer: Filmakers Library
Closed Captioned: 		Running Time: 29 mins
Country of Origin: United States
Study Guide: No
Copyright Date: 2000
Available in French: No

In a Fulani village in south-east Senegal, Dioulde Balde nurses her baby daughter and proclaims that she will never allow her daughter to be mutilated as she was. As she plays with the child, she tells the story of her own genital mutilation and resultant health and sexual problems. A grassroots movement has been spreading throughout the villages of Senegal since 1997. When the first village, Malicounda, publically announced it would abandon the practice, other villages followed suit until two hundred villages joined the movement. The protest against FGM started with an educational program set up by the United Nations in cooperation with a local NGO. News of the declarations spread through the media, inspiring women in other villages to demand education and to take similar decisions.

Changing Paths: Female Circumcision in Mali

In Mali ninety-three percent of the women are circumcised. This...

Women Under Attack (3/5)

This program looks at two of the most terrifying human rights issues...

Welcome to Womanhood

In the remote Kapchorwe region of Uganda, female circumcision...

Cutting Edge, The (Uganda) (3/6)

This film looks at the success story of the REACH project in northern...

Fire Eyes

This powerful and important film is the first to present an African...